Police are investigating after a U.S. Postal Service worker was assaulted on Tuesday in Medford, Massachusetts.
The attack reportedly happened around 11:40 a.m. in the area of Arden Road, shortly after the letter carrier had delivered mail to an area home.
Danielle Schrage, a postal inspector with the Boston Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, confirmed that postal inspectors were responding to a report of a letter carrier who was assaulted on their route in Medford.
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"The carrier has been taken to the hospital," she said in an email.
Schrage said the situation is still very fluid, and she didn't have any further details. The mail carrier's condition is not yet known.
There was no immediate word on whether any arrests had been made.
"I've been a carrier 37 years, and you never heard of these incidents happening," said John Fanning, vice president of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 34 Boston. "It's just a horrible thing, it's sad to see it becoming the norm in our business now."
Photos and video from the scene showed a section of the neighborhood cordoned off with police tape and multiple officers at the scene investigating.
